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		<title>Why is your education so important?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Tanya Griffin, Director of Enrollment Services at SLU&#8217;s School for Professional Studies When I graduated with my Bachelor of Science in Political Science, one of my favorite professors said something I will never forget.  He pulled me aside on my graduation day and said, “Congratulations.  Your education is something that can never be taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slu.edu/blogs/sps-faculty/2013/07/11/why-is-your-education-so-important/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Organizational Informatics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Srikanth Mudigonda, Ph.D. Current trends in computing indicate that the costs per computation cycle is going down, while the amount of computational power available is going up. So, other aspects of their operations being equal, organizations that collect the &#8220;right&#8221; kind of data for making informed decisions are more likely to understand the market [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slu.edu/blogs/sps-faculty/2013/06/24/understanding-organizational-informatics/</link>
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		<title>Work Flexibility Practices Can Help OR Hurt Your Career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Matthew J. Grawitch, Ph.D. A lot is made these days of the importance of creating a flexible work environment so that employees can develop a better work-life interface. Flextime, telecommuting, compressed work weeks, and other innovations in work schedules are supposed to assist employees in managing their demands across different life domains – without having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slu.edu/blogs/sps-faculty/2013/02/14/work-flexibility-practices-can-help-or-hurt-your-career/</link>
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		<title>Workplace Violence &#8211; Mitigating the Threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Hadley Kombrink In light of the recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, understanding security within one’s workplace has been on the minds of millions across the country. Every year, more than 572,000 Americans fall victim to Workplace Violence. Defined by the Occupational Safety &#38; Health Administration (OSHA) as any physical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slu.edu/blogs/sps-faculty/2013/01/22/workplace-violence-mitigating-the-threat/</link>
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		<title>An Appetite for English</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Jenny Agnew During the Fall 1, 2012 term, I had the opportunity to teach an English 150 class (“The Process of Composition”) in The Learning Studio as an Innovative Teaching Fellow.  The high-tech room—with its wall of screens, moveable furniture, and available tablets and iPads—is reason enough to want to teach in the space.  An [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slu.edu/blogs/sps-faculty/2013/01/15/an-appetite-for-english/</link>
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		<title>Reduced Tuition for Military: You’ve Served Your Country, Now Get Your Degree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Terrence Kelly, Department Chair, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation &#38; Technology For the last three years, Saint Louis University has been listed as a military friendly school.  This is because SLU welcomes and embraces all military students as well as their dependents. Currently we are looking for a few good men and women [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slu.edu/blogs/sps-faculty/2012/04/04/reduced-tuition-for-military-you%e2%80%99ve-served-your-country-now-get-your-degree/</link>
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		<title>The Gothic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Jennifer Agnew Monsters aren’t just for Halloween anymore . . . and haven’t been for a while.  Recent trends in literature—including Young Adult (YA)  literature—film, TV, and the fine arts reveal a renewed interest in vampires, zombies, ghosts, and serial killers.  All of these monsters and more fall under the larger category of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slu.edu/blogs/sps-faculty/2012/02/15/the-gothic-in-american-society/</link>
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		<title>Hospitality: The Incredible Job Creation Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Jack Cancila In a recent post on the National Restaurant Association’s website, it was announced that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics determined that the restaurant industry had added 12,800 jobs in the month of October. This is on top of increases of 18,300 in September and 21,700 in August. This totals over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slu.edu/blogs/sps-faculty/2011/11/17/hospitality-the-incredible-job-creation-machine/</link>
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		<title>Winning Baseball is Good for the Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Jack Cancila The St. Louis Cardinals baseball team has made one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the history of baseball. Counted out as late as early September, they have managed to beat what many fans and sports aficionados considered the best team in baseball – the Philadelphia Phillies – followed by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slu.edu/blogs/sps-faculty/2011/10/25/winning-baseball-is-good-for-the-economy/</link>
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		<title>Why Being a Scientist-Practitioner Matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Matt Grawitch I recently put together a proposal for a panel session that would bring a group of scholars and practitioners together to discuss issues related to the work-life interface. One of the experts on my proposed panel serves as an external consultant to organizations, and she mentioned that many people who work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slu.edu/blogs/sps-faculty/2011/10/07/why-being-a-scientist-practitioner-matters/</link>
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